Benjamin Harrison Quotes

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night’s rest was best in any event.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.